Slumdog Millionaire bags 7 BAFTA Awards

After winning five Critics' Choice Awards and four Golden Globes, the critically acclaimed film Slumdog Millionaire swept the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards 2009.

Slumdog Millionaire bagged seven awards from the 11 categories it was nominated in. It won the following awards at the BAFTA awards: Best Film, Best Director (Danny Boyle), Best Adapted Screenplay (Simon Beaufoy), Best Music (AR Rahman), Best Editing (Chris Dickens), Best Sound (Resul Pookutty, Glen Freemantle, Richard Pryke, Tom Sayers, Ian Tapp) and Best Cinematography (Anthony Dod Mantle).

This Danny Boyle directed film features Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Freida Pinto and Irrfan Khan in the lead roles.